Illumination Entertainment’s animated Dr. Suess’ The Grinch easily took the box office crown with an estimated $66 million, while two other newcomers, the Nazi zombie fantasy Overlord and the Lisabeth Salander thriller The Girl in the Spider’s Web fa

The Meg , a years-in-the-making action fantasy about a mammoth prehistoric shark with a B-list cast of western actors led by Jason Statham, doubled its tracking numbers and took a $44.5 million bite out of the weekend box office.